Gunmen flee empty-handed after shooting shopowner
A Surat Drive, Triumph, East Coast Demerara businessman is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation with a gunshot wound to the neck he sustained during a botched robbery last night. Loki Narine, 58, underwent immediate surgery to close the wound following the attack perpetrated by four young men just before 21:00 [...]
GEB security disarmed, shot outside main office
Keith McLean, 62, a GEB security guard for the past four years was shot in the left thigh while trying to defend his colleague who was relieved of a .38 revolver at the company’s new office at Providence, East Bank Demerara yesterday. He reported that three men exited a yellow car and approached the driver [...]
Victim delivers used condom to cops
The 21-year-old woman who alleged that she was raped at the Turkeyen Police Station has given investigators a condom that she claims a detective corporal used while sodomising her. Kaieteur News understands that the alleged victim said she managed to get the condom after the corporal forgot it on a table. The sexual assault reportedly [...]
Man torches house, prevents neighbours’ intervention
A mentally ill man set his own house on fire last night in Brusche Dam, Buxton, and then chased neighbours with a cutlass when they tried to extinguish the blaze. The wooden one-storey house was destroyed despite efforts by firefighters to save the property. According to reports, the man, identified only as Shawn, had repeatedly [...]
Cops search husband’s septic tank for missing wife
- Immigration checks suggest former B.K employee still in Guyana By Michael Jordan Police searched a septic tank at the home of Barbita Sarjou’s husband and also checked his house and two others for traces of the 28-year-old B.K International employee who vanished under mysterious circumstances over a month ago. The husband was also questioned [...]
Two more remanded for murder, ‘terror attacks’
Two more persons who are reportedly part of the “Terror Gang” yesterday appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry to answer to charges of murder, attempted murder and discharging loaded firearm. The men, Basil Morgan and Anthony Watson, were not required to plead to any of the charges that were read to them by the Magistrate. It [...]
Dem boys seh… De police lock up Troy
Police pick up Troy last night and when dem boys ask why everybody start smile. Troy got nuff gold teeth in he mouth and de police looking fuh money to mek up de awards. All that didn’t mek sense to dem boys till dem boys remember that Troy does sleep wid he mouth open and [...]
Banks DIH exec gets top Canadian humanitarian award
Bank DIH executive and Guyanese humanitarian activist, Shabir Hussain, has won this year’s Tikun Olam Award for Humanitarian Aid when the Canadian Jewish Humanitarian organisation, Ve’ahavta, held its Annual Awards Ceremony recently at the Toronto Centre for Performing Arts. According to a release, Kirill Zoretsky, Director of Development of Ve’ahavta, is quoted as saying that [...]
Mother sends child to beg, court considers sentencing
Thirty-year-old Noorjehan Ali, who appeared in court yesterday to answer to a charge of neglect of child, was granted $75,000 bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, yesterday. The accused, who resides at 30 Albouys Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, pleaded guilty to the charge, which alleged that between February 7 and [...]
Motorcycle disappears from R/veldt Police Station, two held
Who in their right mind would attempt to steal a motorcycle from a police station? Well, two men pulled off such a heist but thanks to surveillance cameras around the Ruimveldt Police Station, they are now behind bars awaiting charges. Kaieteur News understands that on Saturday the police pulled in the motorcycle after the rider [...]
Woman secures release of Brazilian husband’s body after 15 days
- may have exposed body smuggling racket The long wait is now over and after two weeks, the Guyanese wife of a Brazilian miner will now be able to bury him on local soil. Manoel Francisco Costa Filo died two weeks ago after he was pinned under water while diving in the Konawaruk River. His [...]
Cancun forest deal lacks details on financing
The UN Climate Summit in Cancun, which ended last weekend, has agreed on a deal that would get rich countries to pay poor countries like Guyana to protect forests, but explicit details on where the money would come from, who will get paid and how the scheme would be monitored were left out. A decision [...]
Bandits terrorise Canje household
Bandits in Berbice resumed their activities early yesterday morning after a brief lull with the attack on a Gangaram, East Canje household, during which they discharged several rounds from their weapons to ward any attempt to thwart them. The bandits, two of whom were masked, commenced their attack around 01:15 hours by smashing several louvre [...]
Prittipaul Investments to make public statement tomorrow
… Trawler explosion While Prittipaul Singh Investment Inc. is complying with the recommendations of the trawler report, the company is disagreeing with several other aspects of the report; this was according to a company official. Kaieteur News was told that the company is expected to issue a statement on the entire matter on Wednesday. Meanwhile, [...]
Sugar, rice, cooking oil prices jump
- GuySuCo denies sugar shortage The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday denied that the local market is suffering from a shortage of sugar. The Corporation said in a release yesterday, that consumers should not pay blackmarket prices. As of December 14, the sugar price remained the same with the wholesale price for a 110lb bag [...]
Less sound clashes for Boxing Day’s Main Big Lime
As the holidays approach, the annual Main Big Lime which is set for December 26, will be starting at 14:00hrs and will continue until 23:00 hours. Thousands of persons are expected to attend. Security is a priority and would be of utmost importance, since the commander of ‘A’ Division and his team along with the [...]
Guyana and China sign significant grant Agreement
By Amar Panday The Government of Guyana and the People’s Republic of China yesterday signed a grant agreement to the tune of $50 million yuan or approximately US$8 million. At yesterday’s signing in the boardroom of the Ministry of Finance, the Chinese ambassador Yu Wenzhe, said that the signing of this agreement is a “happy [...]
Bartica unveils monument to mass murder victims
Two years after the Bartica Massacre, which claimed 12 lives, the town commissioned the Monument of Hope” to honour those who died. The monument was blessed by Reverend Cornell Moss, in the presence of Prime Minister Sam Hinds, Canadian High Commissioner Francois Montour, and Chief Executive Officer of Guyana Gold Fields, Patrick Sheridan. Holbert Knights, [...]
Crippled Wakenaam resident seeks Minister’s intervention
… after public assistance halted A Wakenaam resident is calling on Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand to investigate why public assistance paid to him was cut off and his name struck from the records. Harriram Naniram, 43, of Maria’s Pleasure, Wakenaam, became a cripple in 2000 and was being treated at [...]
Former blood bank employee alleges victimisation
A former Blood Bank employee has accused her employers of a breach of the contract she signed with them. Grace Grant Andries said that she became employed with the Blood Bank from September last year up to August this year. According to the contract, Andries would have been entitled to her leave passage entitlement as [...]
Hinterland road forces community dislocation
…parents rent homes for school children The main road leading to the Santa Rosa Secondary School in the Kumaka District, Region One has become increasingly deplorable over the last few months due to the inclement weather. That situation has since forced a number of students to either stay away from school or to traverse by [...]
People of African descent prepare for year of activities
The Region Ten organising Committee for the International Year for people of African descent, which will be commemorated next year, is optimistic about the positive role they will play in helping to create a region of dignified Africans. Recently launched in Linden under the theme ‘Commemorating the African past, Acknowledging the present, Creating the future,’ [...]
Essequibo rice farmers lose millions to flooding
Rice farmers who occupy the Lima Housing Scheme area, on the Essequibo Coast, have suffered significant losses. Over the last month, an estimated 200 acres of rice lands continue to be submerged and for this, farmers have cast blame on an ineffective koker. They say that the situation has been compounded by the persistent inclement [...]
Thieves use car jack to enter home
… but pensioners foil them A pensioner and his wife who foiled an attempted robbery at their home in Wajid Ali Street, Diamond East Bank Demerara yesterday, are furious at what they describe as a lackadaisical response on the part of members of the police force. According to the pensioner, he was awakened at 1:30 [...]
Dale Hing is Spads National Smallbore Champion
The Guyana NRA Smallbore Year End Championship ended with Dale Hing edging former Champion Dr. Johan DaSilva into second place. Hing captured the Spads Inc. sponsored Year End Championships Trophy Sunday at the Timehri Ranges. At the conclusion SPADS expressed their delight in once more collaborating with the Guyana NRA in sponsoring this shoot and [...]
